Advantages: Good features, repeater and bridging modes Disadvantages: Minor installation problem
Here's the story. I have an existing wireless network. The accesspoint is in the office in the loft. I have a laptop I wander around with (as you do) and there is a PC on the ground floor. On a good day with a strong wind, the downstairs PC gets a weak to medium connection. All too often though it is intermittent or fails completely. Web browsing is quirky and the whole experience is less than satisfactory. The bottom line is that despite being well within the theoretical range for wireless devices, there are just too many walls, floors and sundry other obstacles getting in the way.
There are several things you can do do improve the signal but most are more suited to open spaces. One option that would help in this situation is to use a pair of accesspoints in repeater mode. After a quick look around, Netgear's WG602 looked like ...
Advantages: easy to set up, good range. Disadvantages: a bit sensitive
I bought one of these accesspoints for work because of the two aerial functionality. These aerials work in one of two ways, either diversity where they both send and recieve and can tell which aerial has the best signal to you and uses that, and simplex where one aerial sends and one receives and one sends and you have to have a good signal on both for the system to work.
the diversity system makes it more flexible and we have a larger aerial on an extension on one of the RP TNC aerial connectors, this covers our manufacturing area, and one standard aerial which covers our office space. this works well and extends the range and thus the value for money of this unit.
the advantage however using the aerials simplex is that in situations like an office with a good signal to both aerials one sending and one receiving cuts down ...
Advantages: Very small - Good connection and signal - doesn't overheat - does the job Disadvantages: Not sure how well it works with PCI wireless PC card
My experience of this product is that it works quite well the reason why it doesn't go from good to excellent will be explained bellow.
I have 2 PC's and 1 laptop I wanted the main PC to be hard-wired as that one is right next to the access hub and modem so no need to be wireless and anyway the main machine should always be hard-wired as no wireless can beat that.
Then I have my son's laptop a Dell Inspiron 2200 which has already a wireless network card, and this machine runs perfect via the wirelessaccesspoint anywhere in the house, and my house is a 3 storey house so plenty of range.
However I did install a wireless PCI network card on the PC on 3rd level of the house and this connection was intermittent which meant going back to hard-wire there, now I cannot say for sure if this was a card problem or the accesspoint problem or even ...
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The WAP4400N Wireless-N Access Point is steadily approaching the speeds of its wired counterparts by overlaying the signals of multiple radios. This "Multiple In, Multiple Out" (MIMO) technology utilizes signal reflections that confuse ordinary wireless technology to increase a device's range and reduce dead spots in the coverage area. Adding PCs to your network is a snap, as the WAP4400N supports Wireless-N (802.11n), Wireless-G (802.11g), and Wireless-B (802.11b) devices. To eliminate cabling hassle, the WAP4400N allows for Power over Ethernet (PoE) connectivity. This makes for easy installations, even in places without ready access to an electrical outlet.
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